Investment products

International ETFs hauled in $22.6 billion, while fixed-income remains an investor staple, with a $5.9 billion gain.

Congressman Richard Neal, D-Mass., has introduced legislation that would allow companies to set up automatic payroll deposit Individual Retirement Accounts, or Auto IRAs, for workers who do not have access to employer-provided qualified pension plans.

Since the beginning of the year, Wall Street firms, trade associations, and municipal bond issuers have significantly stepped up their lobbying efforts to get lawmakers to extend the Build America Bonds program before it expires at the end of December.

Hedge fund performance in July lagged behind the equity markets in July, according to the Hennessee Group, an advisor to hedge fund investors.

P&C leads bank-holding-company insurance sales upward in a soft market’s sixth year.

A monumental shift is taking place in the mutual fund industry as wholesalers move to mobile apps for smartphones and tablet computers - en masse.

Tim Purcell and the former JPMorgan Partners Latin American team will likely attempt to top its $200 million debut fund.

If advisors are looking to build their firms, they could do well to target younger boomers.

Issuance of Build America Bonds fell precipitously last month, but overall volume still managed to outpace market issuance in July 2009, according to preliminary data from Thomson Reuters.

High yield bond funds took in nearly $1 billion for the week ending July 28 for the third largest weekly inflow of the year, according to a report published by Lipper FMI.

Net inflows into exchange-traded funds in the first half of 2010 beat inflows into ETFs in the previous year, according to State Street Global Advisors, the investment management business of State Street Corporation.

State Street Global Markets Wednesday unveiled seven new indexes designed to help institutional investors map out hidden market opportunities.

Buoyed by the strength of the long-term municipal market over the past 18 months, mutual fund assets have climbed to record levels, and portfolio managers have had little need to make major changes to their current investment strategies.

Initially, at least, the firm is staking out a niche in the secondary, rather than primary U.S. market. David Puritz, hired in March as U.S. head of convertible bonds, did just that in his former post at Deutsche Bank.

Investors being duped into pouring tens of millions of dollars into fake high-yield opportunities being touted all over the social mediascape.

With gold seen as the place to be, BlackRock introduces its first gold mutual fund in the U.S., and shaves its gold ETF fees from 40 BPS to 25.

The trend for precise exchange-traded fund offerings resurfaces, as returns and yields compress.

Why not invest in volatility? It’s not an asset or a sector, obviously, but you can still invest in it thanks to a small handful of ETNs and ETFs.

The Baltimore-based money manager reported that its profits increased to $158.5 million, or 59 cents per share, and net revenue rose 30.6% to $577.4 million.

The AARP Financial mutual funds will cease to exist as of Oct. 1, less than three years after launching the funds to much fanfare.